I’m probably breaking all the rules of eticate again, but this isn’t really CI related, so I popped it in the lounge. I need someone to ‘teach me how to fish’

I’m ( for the first time ) trying to get to grips with mod_rewrite. I’m hoping someone can offer some examples to get me going, and I can tweak them, but right now I’m at a brick wall. I think I’m ok with things like adding the www on the front and stuff, its just the more detailed rules I’m struggling with.

Heres what I want to do:
From the root, any number of letters or numbers followed by a slash and nothing else:

Remove the slash and replace with a .php:

*Except don’t rewrite a specified one, leave as is:

A similar thing for the products folder:

to

and finally:

to remove the end slash and swap with a .php, and replace /rent with -rent

I’m not asking for someone to just do this for me (ok so maybe I am), but I think if I’ve got a couple of examples, I’ll be able to see how its done. I’ve got a load more rules to add for things like url parameters, but I want to have a bash at those, hopefully with the knowledge I’m gained from these ones…

Ok I’m nearly there, the only one I’m stuck on now is this:

to remove the end slash and swap with a .php, and replace /rent with -rent

Can anyone offer any tips?

Ok I’ve sussed that one out now.

Care to share how you did it, incase anyone else is interested in learning how to do it.

Sorry bud I’ve done that thing haven’t I?

Yes of course I can share it:

This one turns this (if the last part of the url is ‘rent’ or ‘buy’):
http://www.mysite.com/products/satellite/rent/
into this:
http://www.mysite.com/products/satellite-rent.php

RewriteRule ^products/(.+)/(rent|buy)/$ /products/$1-$2.php [L]
RewriteRule ^products/(.+)/$ /products/$1.php [L]

and this one turns this:
http://www.mysite.com/products/satellite/
into this (if the folder is NOT ‘products’ or ‘contact’):
http://www.mysite.com/products/satellite.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/contact/$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/products/.*$
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1\.php